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unpleasantly forceful — especially loud and harsh

"Swaller thet!" yelled Las Vegas, with terrible strident ferocity.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest

Muted now, not strident, not announcing itself with a clarion, but waxing and waning in steady oscillations.
Stephen King -- Carrie
There was a long pause, which the inner devils filled with strident laughter; then May freed herself from his arms and stood up.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
"You never will," returned Longstreth, stridently.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
BRADY (Red-faced, his larynx taut, roaring stridently) As they would look to the mountains whence cometh our strength.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Their strident quorks drifted down from above as Osha washed and cleaned and bandaged the maester's wounds, under Luwin's terse instruction.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
And now indeed the office was alive with hustle and bustle, annunciator bells, strident commands.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own; those innumerable books by men about women in the British Museum are a proof of it.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
Voices were coming from the library, the first one strident and immediately recognizable as their mother's: "What do you mean she's missing?"
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Startled, Alex Conklin snapped open his eyes, instantly shaking the sleep from his head as he clawed for the strident instrument on the bedside table.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
As he spoke, Seth howled stridently outside the tent.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
"I found it on the miner Creede," replied the giant, stridently.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
His speech was strident but still smooth, and peppered with jokes.
ZZ Packer -- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
In a very loud and strident voice the consulate official ordered Charles to sit.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
"Brava! brava!" old Steyne's strident voice was heard roaring over all the rest.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
By the time a strident electronic buzzer told us to go back inside, I had formed a semiclear picture of the group's emotions.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
It is not as though I had expected an apology from her, but the stridency of this reply did, I must say, take me aback a little.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
"Cut out the joshin'," rang out Monty's strident voice.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
He heard a sound above the beeping traffic, something strident rising in the night.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Before the curtain rises, RUTH'S voice, a strident, dramatic church alto, cuts through the silence.
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

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